The word Oaxaca sounds like you are going to spit a loogy. I am not computer savvy enough to be all fancy and have whatever place I could be talking about just linked to from my blog, so if you are really curious you are just going to have to google the shit all on your own.
2.22.07
TML, the kids and I all loaded into the car around 7 am and headed for Puebla for what we thought was going to be around a 6 hour drive, but it was dark when we got to the hotel, so I guess it took allot longer then that. If you ever have an opportunity to go to Puebla do it, it is fucking beautiful. It seems like something interesting should have happened that day, but I can’t remember anything more then Beny shit his pajamas before we left and we stopped at McDonalds for Tarzan to burn off some energy at the play area and the play area was closed because some jackass was cleaning it, so Tarzan just got to stare at the enormous play structure in awe. Poor kid. We stayed at a nice old hotel downtown Puebla that I found in my faithful lonely planet guide that I have been caring around for about 5 years. The information isn’t that current, but still good information. So we stayed at Hotel Imperial we got all lost because the streets on the north side of the main road where all even numbers and the streets on the south side where all odd numbers…. Who the fuck organized the streets, I don’t know but I thought the fucking map was drunk. All I really wanted to do was go to the Mall, but we got all butt fucking lost and that put the kabosh on the mall. Man I really wanted to go the mall. So we all shit showered and shaved and headed to the Zocalo and walked around and took photos and ate at a really shitty restaurant called Restaurant Princesa, I don’t recommend this restaurant and the service was so bad we didn’t even leave 1 peso, not one.
Once upon a time I was a waitress, so good that I was fired because the other waitresses hated me because they head to step it up, well really just one waitress her name is Kelly at The McKenzie Pub in Sherwood Or, I hate her. It has been a million years and I still hate her.
Back to Puebla so it is really beautiful, and it is a really big city, and we stayed right downtown, and I bought a pair for really tight pants. I bought the really tight pants because I still have some weight to loose because I just had a baby.
TML ate some Tostadas de Patas. If you don’t know what that is let me tell you, pickled pigs feet on a tostada shell with beans, lettuce, other stuff, and pigs feet.
Then we went back to the hotel for sleep, and we slept with one of the lights on because come to find out TML is afraid of ghosts. I didn’t learn this until later in the trip.
2.23.07
It was so cold I woke up in the middle of the night and put on more clothes, I would have turned on the heater but there wasn’t one. It was cold every night every were we stayed and not one heater. So when everyone got up I but my really tight pants on and we all went back downtown and I drank some really delicious coffee. Tarzan got some new sneakers that are just a tiny tiny bit to big so he fell down allot. Then we loaded up and drove to Oaxaca. The drive to Oaxaca was interesting. Not too much to look at. There are some really cool bridges allot of fucking cactuses. Every small town that we drove threw had at least one motel on the main road. There really isn’t anything besides nothing to look at most of the drive from Puebla to Oaxaca City, but in the middle of the nothing there are toy trucks for sale on the side of the highway and it goes for at least a mile. I the middle of fucking know where there are small, large toy trucks in array of colors for sale. So if you are cruising along the roads out in the middle of Butt Fuck Egypt and you have the urge to go shopping for toy trucks, this is an option. When we finally arrived to our destination a really small town called Zimatlan. We found some of TML family hung out with them for a while, well we ate their food, and that was good. Also in Oaxaca the tortillas are extra big, like at big as TML’s face. So pretty fucking big. I don’t like them. This small town that we were in had so many speed bumps that there was a sign at the first speed bumps that read ZONA DE REDUCTORES. I don’t think you need to understand any Spanish to understand what that means. Here is Zihua, speed bumps are called topes, and in Oaxaca they are called reductores. So the old man and I were tired so we went to the hotel, and that was the end of that. I think we would have rather went to a motel, but we have all of these kids. Sometimes they are cramping our style.
2.24.07
So today we are going to a baptismal for TML’s cousin’s daughter, talk about a party, and it started at 10 am. First they feed you breakfast; witch involved my first fear factor food of the vacation. The breakfast was chocolate milk served in a bowl with bread, then deep-fried cow (all of the parts of the cow), some super fucking delicious cheese, big tortillas, and animal blood. I don’t know how the blood is prepared, but it looks like big balls of chocolate, and if you don’t know to ask what everything you are going to eat is you would think it might be a little treat after eating the deep fried cow. Then off to the church, the church is in a town that is so small that it doesn’t have any paved roads. Church and Tarzan aren’t really a good mix, it being a catholic church there are a million lit candles so Tarzan thought it was his job to blow all of them out. So during the ceremony the kids and I walked around this town without any paved roads, and it was scary. Then back to the party, I don’t remember what we ate next but everyone started drinking. There was a donkey made out of a log that had about a hundred ceramic shot glasses tied around his neck. The shot glasses are intended for the guest and you wear it like a necklace and if it appears empty someone appears to fill it up with Mezcal (Mexican moonshine). Then they give all of the guest a small gift, then a basket of candy for everyone, and more beer, and more Mezcal. There was a live band that played for 6 hours. There was also a bottle of tequila for every table. Tarzan was so cracked out on candy…… then it was time for more food a nice soup with stomach in it, served with the big tortillas. After a day of beer, mescal, tequila, and weird fucking food, it was time to go pass the fuck out. One final note, TML decided to tell me that on the drive to Oxacaca was the first time he had ever driven on the highway. That explained all of the near death driving experiences and him white knuckling the steering wheel.
2.25.07
So it is my birthday, the big 28. I feel 19, and sometimes I look at my kids and think what the fuck am I doing, I am know were old enough to have all of them. But I am 28 so I guess I really am old enough to have them. Even if I am not, I still have them and I LOVE THEM.
So I told TML what I wanted to do for the day, and we are off. First we go back to his family’s house and we eat soup, but not any kind of soup. This soup is made out of sheep guts and it smells like a barn. I tried not to pay to much attention to it because I probably would have barfed it I would have. There was obviously things like the large intestine, liver, and god knows what else. There were big chunks of stuff and you would think you would have to chew them and they would slide right down, and then you would have to chew up some of the other chunks of stuff. I ate it, but I drank 2 beers before I finished the soup. Then we left, and we went to Monte Alban. This really fucking interesting ruins in Oaxaca City, we spend hours there looking at shit. There is a nice museum and bookstore. We went back to his family’s house and ate the most fucking delicious shit ever, it was balls of pork with red mole. I don’t remember what it was called but, but super yummy. Then after awhile we went to the hotel and then went downtown Oaxaca, also very beautiful, much more alive then Puebla. We walked around for a bit, and yeah time for bed.
2.26.07
In the morning loaded up the car and headed to Hierve La Agua it was way up this huge mountain with only a one-lane dirt road. I read in my faithful, but very old lonely planet guide that you take a bath in this water, actually that you would take a very unusual bath. I am not going to explain much about this place if your interested you are going to have to look it up. Well worth the drive, and it was a good family bath. Also it is being redone so probably about a year from now it will even better and I believe you will have the option to rent a place to sleep for the night, week, or whatever you might tickle your fancy. Then off to the Fabrica de Mezcal. If you were ever to think about how gasoline might taste, I think it would be similar to Mezcal. This Mezcal factory was a really old one so they still use a donkey to squish the plant down, and then you sample the Mezcal, yummy. Then you buy it so for 300 pesos we walked away with 4 liters of Mezcal in old 2 liter soda bottles.
Then we went to Mitla ruins, and you have to pay. TML and I thought this was super lame, but it all paid off in the end. These ruins have two different tombs that you can go inside. One of them was really small, and then other one was bigger and super stinky.
That night we stayed in Oaxaca City it is really alive at night and quite a few choices as far as dining,. We stayed at Hotel Gala, it was really nice and right downtown and the price was good.
2.27.07
Woke up early went to the market to eat and none of the prices are posted so you have to ask how much shit cost before you order it or they will over charge you, this happened to us in Mitla. TML bought some super Mexican sandals, and then we were back on the road again. The toy trucks were still there, we didn’t buy one, but we sure talked about it a lot. We ate at VIPS in Puebla and there was a play structure and Tarzan went ape shit, he went so crazy that he puked on the table.
That night we stayed at Hotel Hacienda Cocoyoc. So fucking nice, so fucking nice we could have taken our whole vacation there and never left the hotel. Very delicious Mojitos I drank so many I got drunk and passed out. TML thought that was really funny. Before I went and passed out I went to turn off the bathroom light and TML asked my why and since I was drunk I didn’t think anything about it and I just turned the bathroom light back on.
2.28.07
Back to Zihua, back to our lives. Since the vacation everything around here has been a million times better, and everything is on the up and up.
If traveling in Mexico buy car always take the toll roads, and eat at the small places on the sides of the roads. The food is always an adventure, the price is good, and the people are always super nice.
I also learned some curious facts about TML he is afraid to sleep in hotel rooms without at least one light on, and he just learned how to drive on the highway. I would like to take him to Brookings one day, just so he understands why I am the way I am. Where I am from and my family. Now I am thinking he might be scared of all of the nature and the weird people.
2.22.07
TML, the kids and I all loaded into the car around 7 am and headed for Puebla for what we thought was going to be around a 6 hour drive, but it was dark when we got to the hotel, so I guess it took allot longer then that. If you ever have an opportunity to go to Puebla do it, it is fucking beautiful. It seems like something interesting should have happened that day, but I can’t remember anything more then Beny shit his pajamas before we left and we stopped at McDonalds for Tarzan to burn off some energy at the play area and the play area was closed because some jackass was cleaning it, so Tarzan just got to stare at the enormous play structure in awe. Poor kid. We stayed at a nice old hotel downtown Puebla that I found in my faithful lonely planet guide that I have been caring around for about 5 years. The information isn’t that current, but still good information. So we stayed at Hotel Imperial we got all lost because the streets on the north side of the main road where all even numbers and the streets on the south side where all odd numbers…. Who the fuck organized the streets, I don’t know but I thought the fucking map was drunk. All I really wanted to do was go to the Mall, but we got all butt fucking lost and that put the kabosh on the mall. Man I really wanted to go the mall. So we all shit showered and shaved and headed to the Zocalo and walked around and took photos and ate at a really shitty restaurant called Restaurant Princesa, I don’t recommend this restaurant and the service was so bad we didn’t even leave 1 peso, not one.
Once upon a time I was a waitress, so good that I was fired because the other waitresses hated me because they head to step it up, well really just one waitress her name is Kelly at The McKenzie Pub in Sherwood Or, I hate her. It has been a million years and I still hate her.
Back to Puebla so it is really beautiful, and it is a really big city, and we stayed right downtown, and I bought a pair for really tight pants. I bought the really tight pants because I still have some weight to loose because I just had a baby.
TML ate some Tostadas de Patas. If you don’t know what that is let me tell you, pickled pigs feet on a tostada shell with beans, lettuce, other stuff, and pigs feet.
Then we went back to the hotel for sleep, and we slept with one of the lights on because come to find out TML is afraid of ghosts. I didn’t learn this until later in the trip.
2.23.07
It was so cold I woke up in the middle of the night and put on more clothes, I would have turned on the heater but there wasn’t one. It was cold every night every were we stayed and not one heater. So when everyone got up I but my really tight pants on and we all went back downtown and I drank some really delicious coffee. Tarzan got some new sneakers that are just a tiny tiny bit to big so he fell down allot. Then we loaded up and drove to Oaxaca. The drive to Oaxaca was interesting. Not too much to look at. There are some really cool bridges allot of fucking cactuses. Every small town that we drove threw had at least one motel on the main road. There really isn’t anything besides nothing to look at most of the drive from Puebla to Oaxaca City, but in the middle of the nothing there are toy trucks for sale on the side of the highway and it goes for at least a mile. I the middle of fucking know where there are small, large toy trucks in array of colors for sale. So if you are cruising along the roads out in the middle of Butt Fuck Egypt and you have the urge to go shopping for toy trucks, this is an option. When we finally arrived to our destination a really small town called Zimatlan. We found some of TML family hung out with them for a while, well we ate their food, and that was good. Also in Oaxaca the tortillas are extra big, like at big as TML’s face. So pretty fucking big. I don’t like them. This small town that we were in had so many speed bumps that there was a sign at the first speed bumps that read ZONA DE REDUCTORES. I don’t think you need to understand any Spanish to understand what that means. Here is Zihua, speed bumps are called topes, and in Oaxaca they are called reductores. So the old man and I were tired so we went to the hotel, and that was the end of that. I think we would have rather went to a motel, but we have all of these kids. Sometimes they are cramping our style.
2.24.07
So today we are going to a baptismal for TML’s cousin’s daughter, talk about a party, and it started at 10 am. First they feed you breakfast; witch involved my first fear factor food of the vacation. The breakfast was chocolate milk served in a bowl with bread, then deep-fried cow (all of the parts of the cow), some super fucking delicious cheese, big tortillas, and animal blood. I don’t know how the blood is prepared, but it looks like big balls of chocolate, and if you don’t know to ask what everything you are going to eat is you would think it might be a little treat after eating the deep fried cow. Then off to the church, the church is in a town that is so small that it doesn’t have any paved roads. Church and Tarzan aren’t really a good mix, it being a catholic church there are a million lit candles so Tarzan thought it was his job to blow all of them out. So during the ceremony the kids and I walked around this town without any paved roads, and it was scary. Then back to the party, I don’t remember what we ate next but everyone started drinking. There was a donkey made out of a log that had about a hundred ceramic shot glasses tied around his neck. The shot glasses are intended for the guest and you wear it like a necklace and if it appears empty someone appears to fill it up with Mezcal (Mexican moonshine). Then they give all of the guest a small gift, then a basket of candy for everyone, and more beer, and more Mezcal. There was a live band that played for 6 hours. There was also a bottle of tequila for every table. Tarzan was so cracked out on candy…… then it was time for more food a nice soup with stomach in it, served with the big tortillas. After a day of beer, mescal, tequila, and weird fucking food, it was time to go pass the fuck out. One final note, TML decided to tell me that on the drive to Oxacaca was the first time he had ever driven on the highway. That explained all of the near death driving experiences and him white knuckling the steering wheel.
2.25.07
So it is my birthday, the big 28. I feel 19, and sometimes I look at my kids and think what the fuck am I doing, I am know were old enough to have all of them. But I am 28 so I guess I really am old enough to have them. Even if I am not, I still have them and I LOVE THEM.
So I told TML what I wanted to do for the day, and we are off. First we go back to his family’s house and we eat soup, but not any kind of soup. This soup is made out of sheep guts and it smells like a barn. I tried not to pay to much attention to it because I probably would have barfed it I would have. There was obviously things like the large intestine, liver, and god knows what else. There were big chunks of stuff and you would think you would have to chew them and they would slide right down, and then you would have to chew up some of the other chunks of stuff. I ate it, but I drank 2 beers before I finished the soup. Then we left, and we went to Monte Alban. This really fucking interesting ruins in Oaxaca City, we spend hours there looking at shit. There is a nice museum and bookstore. We went back to his family’s house and ate the most fucking delicious shit ever, it was balls of pork with red mole. I don’t remember what it was called but, but super yummy. Then after awhile we went to the hotel and then went downtown Oaxaca, also very beautiful, much more alive then Puebla. We walked around for a bit, and yeah time for bed.
2.26.07
In the morning loaded up the car and headed to Hierve La Agua it was way up this huge mountain with only a one-lane dirt road. I read in my faithful, but very old lonely planet guide that you take a bath in this water, actually that you would take a very unusual bath. I am not going to explain much about this place if your interested you are going to have to look it up. Well worth the drive, and it was a good family bath. Also it is being redone so probably about a year from now it will even better and I believe you will have the option to rent a place to sleep for the night, week, or whatever you might tickle your fancy. Then off to the Fabrica de Mezcal. If you were ever to think about how gasoline might taste, I think it would be similar to Mezcal. This Mezcal factory was a really old one so they still use a donkey to squish the plant down, and then you sample the Mezcal, yummy. Then you buy it so for 300 pesos we walked away with 4 liters of Mezcal in old 2 liter soda bottles.
Then we went to Mitla ruins, and you have to pay. TML and I thought this was super lame, but it all paid off in the end. These ruins have two different tombs that you can go inside. One of them was really small, and then other one was bigger and super stinky.
That night we stayed in Oaxaca City it is really alive at night and quite a few choices as far as dining,. We stayed at Hotel Gala, it was really nice and right downtown and the price was good.
2.27.07
Woke up early went to the market to eat and none of the prices are posted so you have to ask how much shit cost before you order it or they will over charge you, this happened to us in Mitla. TML bought some super Mexican sandals, and then we were back on the road again. The toy trucks were still there, we didn’t buy one, but we sure talked about it a lot. We ate at VIPS in Puebla and there was a play structure and Tarzan went ape shit, he went so crazy that he puked on the table.
That night we stayed at Hotel Hacienda Cocoyoc. So fucking nice, so fucking nice we could have taken our whole vacation there and never left the hotel. Very delicious Mojitos I drank so many I got drunk and passed out. TML thought that was really funny. Before I went and passed out I went to turn off the bathroom light and TML asked my why and since I was drunk I didn’t think anything about it and I just turned the bathroom light back on.
2.28.07
Back to Zihua, back to our lives. Since the vacation everything around here has been a million times better, and everything is on the up and up.
If traveling in Mexico buy car always take the toll roads, and eat at the small places on the sides of the roads. The food is always an adventure, the price is good, and the people are always super nice.
I also learned some curious facts about TML he is afraid to sleep in hotel rooms without at least one light on, and he just learned how to drive on the highway. I would like to take him to Brookings one day, just so he understands why I am the way I am. Where I am from and my family. Now I am thinking he might be scared of all of the nature and the weird people.
